Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

2.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

3.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

4.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

5.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

6.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

7.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

8.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

9.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

10.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

11.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

12.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

13.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

14.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

16.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

17.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

18.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

19.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

20.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

21.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

22.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

23.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

24.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

25.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

26.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

27.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

28.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

29.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

30.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

31.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

32.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

33.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

34.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

35.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

36.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

37.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

39.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

40.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

41.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

42.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

43.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

44.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

45.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

46.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.